According to a press release issued by NARA, the MOU “will enable the Archives to process records that were generated by the CIA and other agencies and organizations that contain identifiable and classified CIA information more quickly.”

However, Steven Aftergood, editor of Secrecy News said, “The memorandum itself does not seem very promising. It imposes a number of binding requirements on NARA officials, including referral to CIA of any request for records that have not already been approved for public release. No binding requirements are imposed on CIA, beyond an open-ended commitment to ‘review’ any such requests.”